Ahahaha...okay maybe I shouldn't be writing this but feh, oh well, I've been struck mercilessly by inspiration!

I don't own DBZ and One Peice (WAAAH) they belong to Toriyama and Oda, YOU GUYS ROCK!

I do own however part of the stories' content and all that good stuff, and my OC Mimiru.

Alrighty, now I know you people wanna know why I use 'Mimiru' a LOT for a saiyan girl's name, well for one I love it! Two, this character is featured in MANY-A RPGs, Rp sessions with friends, etc, so don't like it? Get used to it!

Dedication: This goes out to my friend Chris who is essentially, my own Monkey D. Luffy, who can manage to somehow plaster an inhumanly large smile on his face just to make me laugh!

It was your typical sunny day in the Grand Lines and a group of eight would enter a little resteraunt. Waiters and waitress' rushed frantically around the resteraunt, well that is, one waitress worked her fingers to the absolute bone to keep up with the incomming customers, the rest of the waiters were on break...

every single one of them

Stopping momentarily to look at the rather large group the girl sighs dejectedly "Be with you in a moment.." she says just as a small child spills his drink and she'd speedily clean it up and have a fresh drink before the little boy before he could complain more.

The group watched; eyes bulged, mouths agape, and sputtering noises as she worked frantically to keep up for her fellow employees' slack, picking it up with a bit of difficulty. One man in the group would snort with disgust catching a few of the waiters laughing at the small female's progress. Said girl looked tired and pretty worn down, she was fatigued and looked WAY over worked, why, even the hostess was on 'break' leaving the teenage girl on her own.

Finally after about an hour of screaming children, complaining customers, screaming managers, cooks yelling 'orders up', and a few other mishaps the resteraunt's waitress would walk over to the group holding her tray infront of her smiling wearily "Welcome to Pirate's Cove Resteraunt" she says giggling "Sorry for the wait...my name is Mizuru and I'll be your server, if you'll follow me.." she'd expertly turn on her toes, leading the eager group to a large table to accomadate them all, rather annoyed that she couldn't use her real name, but it had something to do with 'staff protection' or something about security issues.

All the while as she walked, the blond haired man with a cigarette in his mouth would follow with heart-shaped eyes skipping after the teenage girl his anger at the rest of the staff forgotten, well almost.

"Tell me m'beauty" he gushes at her upon sitting down looking up at her adoringly "Tell me why are you the one working like a slave, why, you shouldn't be working so hard" he grasps her hand gently in his, he was shocked to the core at how thin she seemed making him wonder, did this girl even eat?

"Stupid love-cook..." one man in the group grumbles, though, like his companion was pretty interested in the girl. She looked strong but looked as fragile as 1cm thick glass as if a simple gesture or touch would break her "Excuse our companion, he's a love sick moron.."

"EXCUUUSE me Marimo?!" the cook argues back turning to the one who had clearly insulted him, dropping the girl's dainty hand in the process.

The two would begin to argue back and fourth, and the waitress would giggle softly she liked their spirit "Okay, what can I get for you guys?" she chirps smiling taking the time to sweep over their forms with her eyes as they took their time choosing.

The first to looked over was the flirtacious blond, he was quite handsome and very nicely dressed. From what she could see he had a nicely built figure and looked like the type of guy seen fawning over one, or several, girls judging by the way he had reacted; grasping her hand, speaking in a loving and affectionate, okay okay, OVERLY affectionate tone.

The second to be looked over was the one that the blond was arguing with, also a very well built man who exuded an aura of complete confidence. with a head of moss-green hair that was styled into slight spikes. Examining his attire her eyes would come to rest on the three blades that were securly attatched to his hip, making her quirk a brow slightly.

Glancing now at a man with an abnormally long nose who was entertaining a young reigndeer in a hat with his wild and unbeleivable stories. Smiling softly at the scene it reminded her of an older brother telling his younger siblings stories of adventures of battles and how a miraculous hero always saves the day and rescues a beautiful maiden in the process.

The next to be assessed was a rather large bulky man who didn't seem to be human at all, no, his nose was metal and his forearms were, HUGE. She could also hear the faint sounds of metal hitting metal coming from that man, 'hmming' softly in her throat she would turn her gaze now to the two other women who were engaged in a conversation.

One had bright orange hair and rich chocolate colored eyes, her complexion was fair and she had quite the ample amount of chest, as did her other female companion who was darker in skin-tone, rich black hair and bright sky-blue eyes. Both were gorgeous in the waitress' eyes.

Soon though, she felt that she too was being assessed, someone was watching her and it did not take her long to see who was staring at her so intensly. The final member of the entourage. He was a lanky youth dressed in a bright red vest that was open revealing his chest, black shorts adorned the lower half of his body. Sitting a top of a messy array of jet black hair was an unmistakable straw hat, one she thought she had seen before somewhere, not to mention...

...The hat's owner was familar too

--Luffy's POV--

When that lady came over to our table and spoke I found myself staring, and I dont know why. I couldn't look away and I still can't look away from her, when Sanji started flirting with her, I felt a strange feeling surge threw me and I found myself glaring at the member of my nakama as he openly flirted with our waitress. Normally it didn't bother me when he flirted, heck I could care less at times what he did as long as I was able to protect my nakama that's all that mattered to me.

But, something about her was different then the other girls that Sanji flirted with, and when Zoro adverted Sanji's attention from her I felt slightly releived. Turning my gaze back to her I found her staring right at me, eyes slightly wide, I felt a jolt go threw my body. She had the brightest shade of green for eyes, their color didn't seem human, they were a bright dragon green. The girl that I was staring at had long brown, almost black hair that was up in a high-pony tail and in her hair was a bright cherry petal pink bow, her bangs would delicately frame her strikingly pretty face.

I watched her fidget slightly and soon Sanji would capture her attention again I didn't even hear his order, actually I hadn't heard anyone's order. When she was now looking back at me expectantly cocking her head to the side she would speak, startling me from my reverie

"..Huh?" I'd say oh-so intelligently.

--Normal POV--

"Huh?" he says intelligently with a equally as intelligent tilt of his head "What'd you say? I wasn't paying attention" he says laughing cheesily, he listened as the girl, their waitress repeated what she had said.

"What would you like to drink?"

"Root Beer!" he'd reply enthusiastically her warm smile made him feel all fuzzy inside it was weird to him but it wasn't a completely unwelcome feeling he relished in the foreign feeling that he was getting from just watching her as she shared a small conversational joke with one of the women on his crew as if the two females had known eachother their whole lives "Alrighty then, I'll be back with your drinks in just a few moments.."

They watched as she hustled away from their table grabbing a few plates of empty food from a nearby group of customers, whilst expertly laying the bill down infront of the grizzly band of men. Some of whom couldn't keep their eyes off of the waitress while others guzzled down their bottles of alcohol with nary signs of being intoxicated.

The straw-hat wearing male would frown when he saw the looks that their likable waitress was getting, he knew lust when he saw it. Glancing at the orange haired navigator out of the corner of his eye, he remembered a time when she had been stolen away from them by a man who had wanted her for himself, that was horrible, he had heard her screams from ways away which had ultimately led him to her. So, when these same leering looks that had been cast to his navigator just before her being kidnapped, were not being given to the kindly waitress, it made him uneasy, escpecially when he felt an odd connection with her, a kinsmanship, as if he knew her somewhere and as if she was extremely important to him in some way, shape, or form.

He watched as the waitress conversed with another employee and looked particularly irritated. The employee was male, and he was smirking at her as they conversed outwardly the female would point to the table of the brutes that were refusing to leave, claiming that they had been here since this morning. The waiter would press his hands to the wall near the waitresses head, preventing her from going anywhere.

--

The teenage girl would scowl noticably "Get away from me, Azuro" she growls shoving him away, her voice would raise "You will see to it that those gentle-" she'd be cut off when the other employee would grasp her wrist glaring slightly down at her.

"Listen, and listen good, girl" he sneers "Your the only proper waitress we have, given that the other girls are...preoccupied with cleaning of the sorts" he snickers softly "So if you wish them gone then do it yourself" he'd roughly shove her away from him, but to his disappointment she regains her footing fairly quickly and walks to the kitchen's pick-up window to grab the drinks that were ordered.

Sighing softly as she made it back to the table she was abruptly stopped by the very crew that she had been speaking to Azuro about. Mizuru would look up at the men who were scowling down at her, a bill clutched in one of their hands. A large man that she guessed was the group's leader.

"We ain't payin' this much for our orders" he says shoving the bill in her face "It mus' clearly be a mistake"

"No sir, you owe 10,000 belli on what you ordered" the young woman says quirking a brow "If you are complaining about your bill then clearly you shouldn't have ordered that much and left long ago paying when the bill was only 30belli, now are you going to pay the bill? Or are you going to stand there looking like a moron? Because I have work to do"

The man chuckles a dark look overcoming his face as he eyed her, looking her up and down with a sleezy look on his face "Oho, I'm sure we can work SOMETHIN' out..." he would grab her wrist roughly, pulling her to his chest. The beverages would fall, smashing into the floor, glass fragments getting everywhere "How's about this" he says smirking at her "You come with me for a bit o'fun and I don't have to pay such a hefty bill? I'm sure I can make it worth your-"

Whack!

The man would be on the ground on his back, the woman's fist was outstretched "Keep your dirty hands off of me" she says picking her tray up and stomping back to the kitchen to get somemore drinks, stopping to tell one of the other workers to get a broom, dustpan and a mop.

"..You...you bitch" the man says holding his face as blood ran from his nose creating a mess on the collar of his shirt "No one strikes me!" he declares rolling over on his stomach and getting to his knees. Watching her walk by with fresh drinks, she'd shoot him a dirty look before coming to a stop at a table of eight.

"Sorry for the wait folks okay now" she'd begin to hand them their drinks as they said what they had ordered.

"My lovely!" the blond says "That big brute didn't harm ya did he?" he asks

"No, no my kind sir he didn't" giggling softly she would wrinkle his nose "A right pervert he was" she'd hand him his drink with a sweet smile "Alright, then who had the rum?" she teases handing it to the swordsman who'd smirk at her taking his drink with a 'thanks'.

--

When the waitress returned to the table after the whole mishap, Luffy would allow himself to relax, unbeknownst to him he had gotten up from his seat to walk over there and make the man release Mizuru from his grizzly grasp. Only to watch as said pirate wound up on his back moaning from a broken nose, he had laughed softly taking his beverage when it was handed to him. He would laugh along with his crew as Mizuru told them that her being hit on was a regular occurance aswell as was punching the lights out of customers whose attempts at 'romancing her' went to far. As was the case with the grizzly pirate captain who Luffy noticed was fumbling with something at his side.

Eyes widening when he realized what that something was, it was black, it was dangerous, it was a gun...and to Luffy's horror it was pointed at their waitress, he'd cry out in warning. The teenage girl would tense and turn around to see what he was looking at, her own eyes would widen and she'd be frozen stiff.

"YOU'RE DEAD BITCH!" the man shouts pulling the trigger before Mizuru could bring her tray up to block the attack, the gun would go off with a loud bang, startling all the other customers, sending them beneath their tables screaming with fear. Azuro, the waiter from before would stand still, eyes wide with shock, disbelief and horror as he watched the waitress' knees buckle from the impact of the bullet.

Her eyes were wide and unblinking as she hit the floor, landing on her knees, head tilted up wards, mouth opened in a silent scream. Blood staining the front of the white work blouse she was wearing, there was a hole in the chest of the garment. Mizuru would fall forwards landing on her stomach, her eyes closing as she hit the floor with a dull 'thump'. She lay there, unmoving.

Luffy would jump from his seat, his chair clatters loudly, jumping clear over the table landing infront of the man that had shot the waitress that was so familar to him screaming "YOU BASTARD! YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!" fists and teeth clenching he'd cock back his fist "GOMU GOMU NO..." his fist stretches forward at an inhuman rate "PISTOL!!" the punch would slam into the man's face causing a domino effect when his body slams into his crew causing a major pile up. Luffy's own nakama would stand at his side, all of them raring to go, all of them awaiting for the fight.

That is until Azuro would dash forward frantically he was in a complete and total panicked state as he fell to his knees next to the bleeding young woman, rolling her carefully onto her back his breath would hitch, there was no way that she was still alive, the bullet had peirced her chest "Shit.." he says slipping a hand beneath of her shoulders and lifting her gently from the floor, the girl in his grasp gave no reaction, swallowing the lump that was forming in his throat he speaks "This...this is my fault...I should've intervened earlier when he had ahold of her...I.." he would close his eyes "Dammit..."

The group would lose interest in the pile of pirates and now they'd turn their attention to the site that could've been prevented by a bit of intervention on the hands of both parties.

Then, the man utters something, a single name belonging to the woman in his arms "...Mimiru..." he says softly not acknowledging the fact that the reigndeer doctor and the rubbery pirate captain were knelt next to him.

"What...did you say?" Luffy asks frowning at the man's words, watching as his crew's doctor looked the girl over, not saying anything just yet.

"...I said, Mimiru...that's her name...her birth name...its Mimiru" Azuro says looking up at Luffy unshed tears in his eyes "She...she was my best friend, we...we started working here around the same time, but...something in me changed when I was promoted manager...when I found out that she had bigger and better things out there for her, I tried to push her away so that when she left it wouldn't be as hard..." a bitter sob escapes him "and now...now...she'll never realize those bigger and better things..."

"Don't count on it" the doctor says looking up from his latest paitent to the man who was beating himself up for the mishap "She's still alive, the bullet missed her heart by a few inches, but its lodged in the soft tissue of he right lung, I'll have to operate.."

"She's alive.." the manager murmurs and nods "Please, do anything that you can for her...and...then take her with you" he says looking at the young woman's face "...she wasn't made to stay in one given place at one given time...she was made to travel...so please, take her with you.." he would brush his tears away "Mimiru here is a powerful fighting force, she's extremely strong for a dainty girl, a bullet in normal circumstances outside of work wouldn't have been able to reach her..." sighing he shakes his head "its because of the need for her to be normal, she wishes to remain the same...she designed something that made her more human like...because she's...not human"

"Not human?" Luffy questions looking down at the girl who was newly dubbed as 'Mimiru' "Then what IS she?"

"I'm not 100 sure what Mimi is, but she's got an inhuman amount of strength and stamina, she's got a tough fighting spirit and loves to fight for what she beleives in, she's quite unique, plus she's got this monkey-tail, but its only visible when that trinket she's wearing is removed" he sates pointing to the ring on the middle finger of her right hand "Please, take her with you..."

Luffy would look at the rest of the crew who would nod, all had smiles on their faces, looking back to the man, he'd gather Mimiru into his arms, surprised at how small she was and when he lifted her, she was really light too. Smiling he nods "Yeah, we'll take her with us, we could use that kind of strength on our crew..."

Standing aswell Azuro nods "Thank you...and please take care of her...she's very important to me.." resting a hand on her head as he says this.

"No problem, we'll take care of her.." giggling the rubber-man would nod his head to his nakama and they'd walk out, their newest addition unconcious in his arms. When they'd get outside the crew would help Luffy get Mimi on his back piggy back style. They'd get her arms around his neck, the male would glance at her and blushes just slightly she was really very pretty.

"Alright...let's get back to the ship" he says taking off in a dead sprint, running with her on his back with little trouble, he had done this very thing for Nami not to long ago, and he was more then happy to lend a hand once more.

"Right!" they'd all say in unison running off after the captain and their newest part of their nakama, something told them that she would join them with little trouble once she was awake. But first they had to get her threw this ordeal alive, something that would be pretty simple if she was as strong as Azuro had said she was then it would be no problem getting her threw this.

As they ran back to the ship all of them wondered what adventures would await them next. Only time would tell what would be waiting for them, it was going to be an interesting ride that was for sure.

And as Zoro, the swordsman of the group, looked on at his captain and the former waitress of the Pirate's Cove Resteraunt, all's he could do is smirk at them, he was no fool he had seen their silent interaction back at the resteraunt, and he could also see that there was something there that was between them, be it an old aquaintenship or something much, much more.

AAAAND that's where we'll stop for now.

To be honest I really wasn't going to have her join the crew that way, it just sorta happened that way I guess.

This story will get A LOT happier and funnier as time goes on, its just a difficult period right now, don't worry readers I wont disappoint you.

Read and Review, no flames please! This is my first X-Over!